A New York doctor became a hero in the skies recently when he turned into a medical MacGyver by creating a device that helped an asthmatic toddler struggling to breathe during a transatlantic flight. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, told ABC News

Machines can do a lot of things that humans used to do. You can put your debit card into an ATM and watch it spit out money. You don't have to talk to a cashier at the grocery store anymore if you use the self-checkout line. And you can drive through tollbooths without stopping, because a machine

The three-and-a-half-inch tumor in Cynthia Miller's throat threatened to choke her, leaving her no choice but to have it removed. "I had no idea I was even sick," said Miller, 55, who lives in Maitland, Fla. "I woke up in the middle of the night coughing. … The next thing I knew they were booking

It sounds like a plot straight out of the futuristic sitcom “The Jetsons” - robots that tend to and monitor patients recovering from surgery. But such a scenario is no longer science fiction. Doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston have sent robots home with children after...

Reported by ABC news’ Gitika Ahuja, from TEDMED2011, a conference on ideas and innovation. More than half a million people in the U.S. undergo heart surgery every year. It has become a common and mostly successful surgery, but whenever I hear how it’s actually done, it...

Philip and Joanne Keane, of Newtown, Conn., never thought twice about having their daughters immunized against strains of the human papillomavirus that could cause cervical cancer. "I thought it [HPV] was a women-only disease , a virus only they should worry about," said Philip Keane. But when

On the heels of a Feb. 16 decision by the Food and Drug Administration to make millions more people eligible for laparoscopic gastric banding (lap band) weight loss surgery, a new study suggests the more invasive gastric bypass may be better. Researchers from the University of California, San